Новости за 24.09.2018

CBS All Access has handed out a straight-to-series order for “Why Women Kill,” a drama series from “Desperate Housewives” creator Marc Cherry. The series will center on three different women in three different time periods — a housewife in the ’60s, a socialite in the ’80s and a lawyer in 2018 — who are dealing with infidelity in their marriages.  The series will examine how the roles of women have changed, but how their reaction to betrayal has not. “As much as we like to think that the institution... Читать дальше...

Less than 90 minutes before the start of media day Monday morning, the Warriors announced a number of promotions and additions to the team’s basketball operations department. Most notably, Bruce Fraser and Chris DeMarco have been promoted from player-development coach to assistant coach. DeMarco has also added the title of "Director of Player Development." Fraser built a reputation as Stephen Curry’s personal shooting guru in his four years as a player-development coach. DeMarco, who led Golden State’s summer-league team in 2017... Читать дальше...

NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt will step down from his post on Tuesday, TheWrap has learned. Two members of his executive team, George Cheeks and Paul Telegdy, have been promoted to co-chairmen. Greenblatt will continue to consult with Cheeks and Telegdy and work on the network’s live musicals, NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke said Tuesday in a memo sent to staff and obtained by TheWrap. Greenblatt is credited with bringing the live musical event format back to broadcast television. Read... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump made reducing drug prices a key promise during his election campaign, repeatedly accusing drugmakers of "getting away with murder." At the end of May, he promised that drug companies would be announcing "massive" voluntary drug price cuts within two weeks. An Associated Press analysis of brand-name prescription drug prices shows it's mostly been business as usual for drugmakers. In the two months after Trump's announcement, there were more than 16 price hikes for every decrease, the AP found. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — White House: Trump, Rosenstein spoke Monday, will meet Thursday at White House amid uncertainty about Deputy AG's fate.

Investors in Gilead Sciences are still waiting for the company to prove the value of last year’s purchase of Kite Pharma, and time may be running out. The Foster City biotech firm’s shares have traded sideways since the Kite deal was announced in late August of last year. Sales of Kite’s first treatment, Yescarta, failed to impress in its first two full quarters on the market, and competition is looming. Adding to concerns, Gilead’s longtime chairman, chief executive officer and chief medical officer have all recently stepped down. Читать дальше...

Laura Ingraham reacted to New Yorker reporters Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer’s story of a second woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, with the Fox News host demanding on Monday that Farrow’s Pulitzer Prize be revoked. “So this is Ronan Farrow, they should take his Pulitzer back for this. Go find Ronan and take his Pulitzer back, OK?” she said on her radio show. “He actually did great reporting when it came to the [Harvey] Weinstein stuff — because that was someone who was a dirtbag his whole life, his entire life. Читать дальше...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Russian national has been arrested in Norway on suspicion of spying after he attended a conference on strengthening cooperation between Europe's parliamentary administrations, his lawyer said Monday. Russia has strongly denied the charges and demanded the release of the 51-year-old man. Lawyer Hege Aakre told the Norwegian news agency NTB that her client, who wasn't identified, was being questioned by Norway's domestic intelligence agency, PST. The man was arrested Friday... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Weatherly is a fixture at CBS. He played Anthony DiNozzo on "NCIS" from its premiere in 2003 until 2016, when he left to star in his own CBS series, "Bull." It's that history with the network that Weatherly says makes it difficult to comment on Les Moonves' resignation earlier this month as chief of CBS amid sexual misconduct allegations. "Not to get into any of the ifs, ands or buts about what is right or wrong and where it comes from," Weatherly said in a recent interview. Читать дальше...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The University of Oklahoma's president says he's still finding inefficiencies and waste in the institution's finances. University President James Gallogly told the Tulsa World that he's concerned about the university's investments in student housing and residential colleges. The university's debt load is more than $1 billion, Gallogly said. The university is also projected to have $14.5 million in operating losses for the current fiscal year, he said. Those figures prompted Gallogly... Читать дальше...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After more than two decades as one of the South Carolina law enforcement community's most visible fixtures, the man known as "Trooper Bob" is hanging up his badge. Lt. Bob Beres (BARE-ez) tells The Associated Press that he's retiring this fall after 24 years in the Patrol. His last day on the job will be Nov. 30. One of the Patrol's chief spokesmen, Beres is tasked with giving reporters details about traffic accidents, crash investigations and general safety tips. Standing 6-foot-5... Читать дальше...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a California hearing on a proposal to roll back car-mileage standards (all times local): 9:05 a.m. Demonstrators have gathered ahead of California hearing on the Trump administration's proposal to roll back car-mileage standards. The session in Fresno is set to begin at 10 a.m. Monday and is expected to last all day. It's the first of three events by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to gather public comment on the mileage plan. Читать дальше...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Confronting the dangers of North Korea's nuclear threat, President Donald Trump arrived at the United Nations on Monday striking a far less ominous tone than a year ago, announcing he likely will hold a second summit with Kim Jong Un "quite soon." Twelve months after Trump stood at the rostrum of the U.N. General Assembly and derided Kim as "Rocket Man," the push to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula is a work in progress, although fears of war have given way to dreams of rapprochement. Читать дальше...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A registered sex offender will appear in a Tucson court for the first time to face charges in the deaths of two girls. Christopher Matthew Clements is scheduled for arraignment Monday afternoon in Pima County on multiple counts, including two of first-degree murder and kidnapping. The 36-year-old, already serving time in Phoenix for burglary charges, was indicted earlier this month on 21 counts. Tucson police have not said what led to them investigating Clements in the killings... Читать дальше...

Comedy Central has signed a production deal with All Things Comedy, the banner founded by comedians Bill Burr and Al Madrigal. The deal will see ATC produce an original stand-up series hosted by Burr, along with three one-hour stand-up specials. The first one-hour special under the deal, “Bill Burr Presents Paul Virzi: I’ll Say This,” premieres Nov. 2. Read the full article on The Wrap

MIAMI (AP) — The federal government is reviewing debris removal costs in the Florida Keys following Hurricane Irma last year. WFOR-TV reports that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has responded to requests for an audit from Florida's 11 Democratic members of Congress. The lawmakers have alleged the state squandered millions of federal taxpayer dollars by ignoring debris removal contracts already in place and instead hiring more expensive companies for the work. In a Sept. 20 letter to the lawmakers... Читать дальше...

ALTAMONT, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a woman has been fatally shot and three other people have been injured in an apparent domestic incident at a Tennessee home. Grundy County Sheriff Clint Shrum tells news outlets 32-year-old Carolyn Powell was fatally shot in the incident Sunday in Altamont. Her husband, John Smith, was identified as the shooter and taken into custody. The sheriff says the shooting appeared to be a domestic-related incident between, Smith, his wife, and an unidentified man. Authorities... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump plans to announce details about her October trip to Africa during an appearance this week in New York. The White House says the first lady will discuss the trip at a reception she's hosting Wednesday during the annual U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York. She'll address spouses of visiting heads of state, heads of foreign delegations, members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet and representatives from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Mrs. Trump... Читать дальше...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby's sentencing hearing opened Monday with a debate over whether the 81-year-old comedian should be branded a "sexually violent predator" — a scarlet letter that would make him subject to mandatory lifetime counseling and community notification of his whereabouts. Cosby, who faces up to 30 years in prison for drugging and molesting a Temple University women's basketball administrator in 2004, fought the prosecution's effort to classify him as a predator under state law. Читать дальше...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas priest still holds medical licenses in Kansas and Missouri despite being defrocked this year after Archdiocese of Kansas City leaders determined that he abused three minors decades ago. The Kansas City Star reports the Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts is investigating the allegations against 71-year-old John Wisner, who remains a licensed psychiatrist in both states. The Kansas board declined to comment on whether it was looking into Wisner's case. Читать дальше...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Thousands of Louisiana flood victims who have been barred from homeowner rebuilding grants because they borrowed money through the federal Small Business Administration could soon see that change. A deal to rework federal disaster-relief policy was included in a compromise struck by congressional leaders Saturday on an unrelated reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration. The Advocate reports the bipartisan agreement is expected to be passed into law within weeks without significant additional changes. Читать дальше...

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol says two people died in a three-vehicle crash in Williams County. The patrol says a westbound Dodge Ram pickup truck crossed the center line on Highway 2 and hit a GMC Sierra pickup about 2 a.m. Sunday near Williston. An approaching semi then struck the Dodge Ram. The Dodge Ram's driver, 24-year-old Gilberto Gomez Jr., of Donna, Texas, and a passenger in GMC, 45-year-old Rosa Aguayo, of San Bernardino, California, were killed. The driver of the... Читать дальше...

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police say a white officer accused of fatally shooting her black neighbor inside his own apartment has been dismissed. The Dallas Police Department fired Officer Amber Guyger on Monday, weeks after she fatally shot 26-year-old Botham Jean inside his own apartment on Sept. 6. Court records show Guyger said she thought she had encountered a burglar inside her own home. Guyger was arrested on a preliminary charge of manslaughter days after the shooting. She is out on bond. Jean... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (all times local): 12:01 p.m. Former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe says that if Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein leaves his post, it puts the special counsel's Russia investigation "at risk." The Associated Press has confirmed that Rosenstein is heading to the White House with the expectation that he will be fired. Rosenstein oversees special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia election meddling and has been the probe's chief public defender.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein headed to the White House Monday expecting to lose his job, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The development followed revelations that Rosenstein had made comments critical of President Donald Trump, including discussing possibly secretly recording the president and invoking the Constitution to have the Cabinet remove him from office, Trump himself was in New York for a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. It... Читать дальше...